Louis MacNeice: The Poet in His Contexts

by Peter McDonald

Since his death in 1963, Louis MacNeice's critical standing has risen steadily. This new study addresses the contexts of his writing that are of greatest relevance to his place in modern poetry: his problematic relation to Ireland and his place in the largely English "thirties generation" with which he is often identified. The influence of these aspects on MacNeice's poetic development is studied in detail, addressing his relation to Yeats and Modernism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198117663
• ISBN13: 9780198117667
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"